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How to use pince-nez in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word pince-nez? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
I see Kestrel's body fly backwards, her face stunned and confused, the pince-nez flying off and upwards.
Gideon is slender, rather unpleasant looking man, with light brown hair, wearing a light red suit and a golden pince-nez.
The woman looks barely older than a sixth-former, with her hair styled sharply over to one side and a pair of pince-nez perched on her nose.
Under a brow of average height, two grey-blue eyes looked out at me, behind glittering pince-nez, with an air of peaceful interrogation.
Her dark hair was tied tightly back in a pony-tail and she met my gaze through entirely cosmetic pince-nez.
Carol squinted at the source of the voice, but could only see a pair of pince-nez glasses.
He lowered the pince-nez which attached itself precariously to the end of his flattened nose.
For her part, Eliss found Ciaran dusty and hidebound, carrying as he did a clipboard, a stylus and a pair of pince-nez on a steel chain.
Kipling had hoped that pince-nez would get him through, but only the imperial poet's influence got his son a commission.
The singularity of his appearance was further emphasized by a pince-nez held in place by two black cords tied at the back of his head.
Incorporated into its elaborate frame are two miniature pairs of binoculars, a pince-nez and a bulbous, Cyclopean glass eye.
The bushy-haired Russian Jew in the pince-nez was an ardent revolutionary but also a genuine democrat, or so the legend goes.
Later she would learn the joys of a good read, but the Essex accent and hairdo still single her out from the pince-nez and halitosis crowd that used to dominate publishing.
The latter's 1919 portrait of Koch, in a late expressionistic manner, shows the sitter in his role as writer or poet, complete with pince-nez, stiff collar and dark suit.
A forceful orator and an advocate of the strenuous life, Roosevelt with his bushy mustache, pince-nez, and wide, toothy grin was a caricaturist's delight.
Large blue eyes are watching me from behind a pair of pince-nez.
Bill from 1897 issued by the house Paul Vuillard, manufacturer of match boxes and pince-nez cases.
People could admire among other things the pince-nez and the famous top hat of the crowds haranguer, Marcelin Albert, who brought himself as their leader to denounce injustice.
Shabet took a pince-nez from his breast pocket and settled it on the bridge of his nose.
I waited in a stiff chair while Orson went through the rail and sat down alongside a thick shouldered erubescent man with a pince-nez on a black ribbon, and an erubescent bald head.
Examples from Classical Literature
The secretary, who had once been a governess, adjusted her pince-nez and took a note.
Simon's pince-nez dropped from his nose in his doubt and wonder, but he answered at once.
Presently he took off his pince-nez and put them into his pocket.
The Premier put on his pince-nez and warmed his hands at the fire.
Edna adapted her pince-nez and turned perfunctorily for a moment.
She put on her pince-nez again, and went out to the head of the staircase.
The little lady tapped Roma's arm with her pince-nez and laughed.
Then he settled his horn-rimmed pince-nez more firmly on his nose and felt in his waistcoat for a cigar.
As he touched her, his gold pince-nez became dislodged and was flattened between them.
A thin, dark young man, wearing a pince-nez and smoking a cigarette, looked up from his writing as she entered.
He unfolded it and disclosed a golden pince-nez, with two broken ends of black silk cord dangling from the end of it.
He wore gold-rimmed pince-nez, and had a curious impassivity of feature.
The scything had begun, and she took off her pince-nez to watch it.
His dark eyes sparkle with inquisitiveness behind the pince-nez.
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